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إِسْتَرْعَفَ

Root: رعف

Form: 10

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إِسْتَرْعَفَX see 1, first sentence.
2 اِسْتِرْعَافٌ also signifies The drawing forth blood from the nose. (KL. [Golius, as on this authority, explains the verb as signifying “ Nasum prehendit: ” but the Verbal.Noun is explained in the KL by the words خون برآوردن از بينى; which I have rendered above.])
3 [Hence,] استرعف الحَصَى مَنْسِمَ البَعِيرِ The pebbles made the toe, or sole, or foot, of the camel to bleed.
4 And استرعف [or استرعف الشَّحْمَةَ] He endeavoured to make the piece of fat to drip, and took what became melted thereof.
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